DREAM MYTHS

- Even Sigmund Freud didn’t believe this completely – he said some war dreams were fear enactments.

All Men’s Dreams are Sexual:

- A classic study by Calvin Hall and Robert Van de Castle, at Miami’s Institute of Dream Research, found that only 12 per cent of male dreams have sexual content.

Remembering your Dreams is always Helpful:

- A study of Holocaust survivors by psychologist Peretz Lavie of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology found that those who didn’t remember dreams about the horrors they experienced were happier than those who did.

Dreams cannot Predict Illness:

- Michigan State psychiatrist Robert Smith found that among 49 patients about to undergo heart catheterization men who dreamed of death and women who dreamed of separation became sicker than those who did not. In an upcoming book researcher Oliver Sacks writes that people with multiple sclerosis, strokes or neurological injuries sometimes dream of improvement before it comes. Psychologist Roseanne Armitage has found that EEGs taken during sleep may predict the onset of depression.